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The Hawker Tempest is a British fighter aircraft that was primarily used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Second World War. The Tempest, originally known as the Typhoon II, was an improved derivative of the Hawker Typhoon, intended to address the Typhoon's unexpected deterioration in performance at high altitude by replacing its wing with a ...
Humble piloting the Hawker Tempest I prototype HM599. Following the outbreak of the Second World War Humble was invited to join Hawker Siddeley's team of test pilots, taking up the role on 10 October 1940. [2] [3] The testing team was led by George Bulman and Philip Lucas. [2]
Westland Lysander II United Kingdom: Liaison: 1941 1943 25 [7] Westland Lysander III.T United Kingdom: Target tug: 1941 1942 48 [7] Post World War II Airspeed Oxford: United Kingdom: Transport: 1946: 1949: 5: Auster AOP.6: United Kingdom: Liaison: 1946: 1970: 20: Hawker Tempest II: United Kingdom: Fighter: 1945 1955 235 [8] Supermarine Spitfire ...
Royal Air Force Newchurch or RAF Newchurch was a temporary Second World War airfield at Newchurch, Kent.It was a base for a Hawker Tempest wing that gave fighter cover over occupied France in the period up to and beyond D-Day and later defended south-east England against attack from V-1 flying bombs.
The Napier Sabre is a British H-24-cylinder, liquid-cooled, sleeve valve, piston aero engine, designed by Major Frank Halford and built by D. Napier & Son during World War II. The engine evolved to become one of the most powerful inline piston aircraft engines in the world, developing from 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) in its earlier versions to 3,500 hp ...
No. 486 (NZ) Squadron was a fighter squadron established for service during the Second World War. It was a New Zealand squadron formed under Article XV of the Empire Air Training Plan . Although many of its flying personnel were largely drawn from the Royal New Zealand Air Force , the squadron served in Europe under the operational and ...
Squadron Leader David Charles Fairbanks DFC & Two Bars (22 August 1922 – 1975) was an American fighter pilot and flying ace who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. During the war, he scored 14 aerial victories, 13 of them on the Hawker Tempest, making him the highest scoring ace for that aircraft.
Hawker developed what was originally an improved Typhoon II, but the differences between it and the Mk I were so great that it was effectively a different aircraft, and was renamed the Hawker Tempest. Once the war in Europe was over Typhoons were quickly removed from front-line squadrons; by October 1945 the Typhoon was no longer in operational ...